Examples of Primary Sources in QCAT:

• Canadian heritage collection: FC104 .F535 2003
• Canadian sources: investigated - 1914 to the present: new text FC170 .C387 2008 with teacher's guide
• Hells’corner: An illustrated history of Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918: D547.C2 G72 2004
• The last good war: An illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945: D768.15 G728
• Great Canadian speeches: PN4055.C2 G74t 2004
• Great Canadian political cartoons (v.1. 1820-194, v.2 1915-1945v. 3 1946-1982) : FC173 .H69
• e-book: Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives (founding to 1965, including the Declaration of Independence)
• Canada: A portrait in letters 1800-2000 / Charlotte Gray: F1003 .C25 2003
• The book of war letters : 100 years of private Canadian correspondence: FC25 .B66 2005
• Front lines from the battle front to the home front : original commemorative coverage of the second world war : a special 112-page newspaper

Lesson Ideas for Primary Sources

Library and Archives Canada Evidence Web

Historical Thinking Project from Canadian Heritage. See Lesson section.

Veteran’s Affairs Canada for free Remembrance Day materials

Memory Project Digital Archive | CBC Archives

Library Archives

Ontario History Quest (Ontario Archives): Based on primary documents in the Ontario Archives from 1820s to 1970s

Ontario Time Machine: thirty books from Ontario’s early years

Canada Year Book Historical Collection:
Historical data 1867-1967 with text, tables, charts and maps, and learning resources for students and teachers

Historica: Canadian history, geography, and culture; teacher resources, biographies, and Heritage Minutes.

Wartime Canada:

 Media Literacy

Media construction of presidential campaigns: JK524 S64 2006

Presidential Campaign Commericals 1952-2012

World War II Poster Collection
During World War II, the United States government crafted hundreds of different posters to promote military service and the conservation of natural resources This collection includes digitized 338 of these posters.  
 

Letters and Narratives

Holocaust Survivor stories (downloadable):  also in print

History Trek: http://historytrek.ca/ (portal co-designed by Grade 6 students and researchers)

Canadiana.org Discovery Portal:  30 collections Fr/E postcards to sheet music

Canadian Letters:

Canadiana.org: and Early Canadiana Online (ECO): A digital library providing access to 3 million pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.

Canada in the Making: This site focuses on the history of Canada through the words of the men and women who shaped the nation. Built around the Government Documents collection of the Early Canadiana Online collection, it integrates narrative text with links to primary texts.

Images and Photographs

Library and Archives Canada: See WWII collection
LAC Images Files:

Historical Atlas: www.historicalatlas.ca

Reading like a Historian

Framing Canada: historical photographs; Decoding Photographs:

United Nations History Project

Historical Newspapers

Search the title of each newspaper or collection in QCAT then search within by date or subject.
 

• The Globe and Mail - Canada's Heritage: 1844-2002
• New York Times [Full-text]: 1851- (excluding latest 2 years)
• The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985 Toronto Star -- Pages of the Past: 1894-2004
• Libris Canadiana: Early Canadian magazines
• Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers : http://www.connectingcanadians.org (early newspapers in their original language)